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Databases

Databases

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Database Information System (DBIS) with around 2,800 databases on all areas of specialisation (for articles, biographies, statistics, images, maps, newspapers, encyclopaedias, etc.): Please determine which database is relevant for your topic/ your search. Out of the total offer, 2,300 databases are freely accessible and 500 are accessible with the BSB identification code.

Books

Library and union catalogues and articles databases can be queried at the same time. The data are from the "B3Kat" (joint union catalogue of Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg), the licensed Primo-Central-Index, the "Bayerische Bibliographie", the "VD 16" and "VD 17" catalogues. Search tips

Images

The Image Archive of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has entries of over 220,000 individual images (around 150,000 together with the digitized image): Portraits from the 16th to the 20th century, views of cities and locations (particularly in Bavaria), historical photographs, etc.

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Newspapers

Newspapers

The newspaper portal of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek currently offers access to around 340 digitized historical newspapers. The portal is expanded successively (it is intended to integrate around 1,000 predominantly Bavarian newspapers from the holdings of the BSB). digiPress help

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Newspapers

Newspapers

The issues of the Süddeutsche daily newspaper for Germany, Bavaria and Munich, including the issues for the individual administrative districts as of 1992, the supplement SZ-Magazin as of 1999, etc. BSB identification code required. FAQ and help

Maps

World maps and street plans of cities all around the world, topographic and topical maps, atlases, panoramas, bird's eye view maps, facsimiles and electronic resources, etc. – 265,000 publications with around 273,000 holdings records of the participating libraries. Read more...

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Manuscripts

Manuscripts

OPACplus/ BSB Catalogue – Manuscripts

OPACplus/ BSB Catalogue – Manuscripts

The BSB Catalogue with the type of media "manuscripts" being preset: In the online catalogue new acquisitions as of 2009 and all digitized manuscripts are registered, in addition also the total holdings of codex manuscripts and personal papers. Guidelines for writing the shelf-marks

Manuscripts

Database Information System with the subject area "codicology" being preset: The databases relevant for your search can be selected from the overview. The databases can partly be accessed freely, and partly only with the BSB identification code.

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Manuscripts

Manuscripts

Catalogue of the manuscripts of the collection group "Codices iconographici" – illuminated manuscripts of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek from the 15th to the 20th century – with the extended field of architectural manuscripts ArchIcon (under construction). Read more...

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Images

Images

Catalogue of the manuscripts of the collection group "Codices iconographici" – illuminated manuscripts of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek from the 15th to the 20th century – with the extended field of architectural manuscripts ArchIcon (under construction). Read more...

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Manuscripts

Manuscripts

National reference tool for personal papers, autographs and archives of publishing houses with individual entries from almost 450 institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany and from further registers of collections and personal estates. Read more...

Archives

Overview of the holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek of materials on microfilm, predominantly US, British and Russian files on the history of the German-language countries, France, Italy and East Europe and on the history of the two world wars.

Books

The "Alphabetischer Realkatalog", alphabetical classified catalogue (1501 – 1856), the oldest large alphabetical subject catalogue of the world, with around 84,000 titles from the old stocks of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (articles as well). The catalogue takes account of the subjects of historical science, philosophy, mathematics, sciences and medicine in particular. Register

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Books

Books

Register of the alphabetical subject catalogue 1501 – 1952: The subject catalogue is subdivided into three parts, a topographic part, a historical part and an art catalogue. On the subject of Bavaria, also articles were registered from 1916 to 1952.

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Journals

Journals

Overview of journals relevant for Bavaria included in the Electronic Journals Library: The spectrum of topics goes from history to medicine and on to sciences. BSB identification code required for titles marked in yellow and yellow-red. Read more...

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Databases

Databases

Overview "Bavarica" (works from and about Bavaria) in the Database Information System: The scope of topics ranges from digital maps to databases specializing in jurisprudence or newspapers, up to sources from the fields of history and cultural studies. Most databases can be accessed freely, and partly only with the BSB identification code.

Maps

The Location Database includes over 90,000 objects, among them the 42,000 officially named places in Bavaria, around 10,000 not officially named places, historically and currently existing municipalities and administrative districts and regions. In addition, the database encompasses waters, forests and mountains. Read more...

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Books

Books

Around 40,000 retro-digitized works from the holdings relevant for Bavaria can be searched in the full-text format (predominantly from the classification mark groups of Bavarica, political journals, State Theatre and the library of the Bavarian Mining-, Smeltery- and Salt Works). Read more...